Holy crap, THAT’S obscure!
I remember the Central African Empire (NBC’s Weekend did a feature on the coronation), but I could never name Bokassa in a million years.
Yes. And his timing is just a little off. It feels odd to me at home, it must feel really odd to the other players.
Robin Roberts is pretty good. But like I said in the other thread, I’m ready for them to just pick someone already.
And I find her to be kind of annoying, tho I’m not sure why. Too animated, maybe? She wears me out just watching her. Stupid reason, I know, but there it is…
Regarding his timing being off, it appeared to me that he might have a slight speech impediment (perhaps a latent stutter). Pure speculation, but it might explain the hesitation.
I thought the same thing watching him yesterday. He appears to take a second or two to form his response before saying anything.
I don’t care for her either. She’s not clicking with the contestants like she seems to think she is.
Yeah, I think she’s adequate, but I wouldn’t put her in the top half of the guest host lineup.
I think Robin has been doing the best interviews, and I like her other interactions. FWIW
The current champion keeps reminding me of a famous singer. I just figured it out: Lyle Lovett.
Roberts always sounds like she’s astonished when a contestant gives a correct response;
“YES! You got it RIGHT! WELL DONE!”
I don’t particularly care for her either.
So far my own top three, in no particular order other than chronological, are Mayim Bialik, Sanjay Gupta and George Stephanopoulos.
Yeah, it’s really annoying. In fact, he says not “what is” but “what’s,” pauses between that and the actual response, leaves out articles, and never seems to vary his intonation no matter how sure he is, always with the rising tone of a question at the very end. “What’s… Faulkner?” “What’s… albatross?” “What’s… Pirates?”
They famously don’t penalize misspelled correct responses (as a general rule). I wondered if they would have accepted “Highly Sir Lassie.”
Me too. It’s a rare occurrence.
I noticed that too, especially when the guy got Iron as element 26, chemical symbol “Fe.” She sounded like she was surprised that a black man knew chemistry.
If they chose her permanently, not that I think they will, they may need to raise the moderator’s desk
LOL, that’s exactly what I was thinking at the time.
I would hope not, since that spelling would change the pronunciation. There’s no “R” sound in “Selassie.”
Tonight’s 3rd place finsher, Patrick, ended DJ with -$7,400, setting a new record for worst score on Jeopardy, beating the previous record of -$6,800 set in 2015.
You know, I was wondering about that. Thanks for posting. I was quite sure I’d never seen any final score that low.
He was not very good. A ton of obvious guesses, most of them bad.
I think I remember that episode. The one with the poor woman who was flustered from the very start?*
The lowest score I can remember before that was Wolf Blitzer’s, during a celebrity match.
*Holy crap, that was six years ago?!? 